Mr. A N D R E A D E A N G E L I S
contact information
current position
PhD candidate, european university institute
Senior researcher and lecturer, University of Lucerne
address
University of Lucerne · Frohburgstrasse 3, Raum 3.B11
6002 Lucerne · Switzerland
email
[email protected]
website 1
Link to EUI website
website 2
Link to Lucerne University website
research interests
Political Behaviour, Political Methodology, Political Communication, Political Economy,
European Politics, Italian Politics.
education
July 2013
EUI
Master of Research in Sociology and Political Science.
Prof. Alexander H. Trechsel · European University Institute
July 2012
Siena
M.Sc. Bocconi University
Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences.
Prof. Sandro Roventi · Bocconi University
May 2007
Uni Perugia
M.Sc. University of Siena
Master of Science in Comparative Politics.
Prof. Paolo Bellucci · University of Siena
March 2010
Bocconi
M.Res. European University Institute
B.Sc. University of Perugia
Laurea Triennale (eq. Bachelor of Science) in Economics.
Prof. Pierluigi Grasselli · University of Perugia
grants and distinctions
Sep-Dec 2015
Fulbright
Fulbright-Schuman award jointly financed by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture
of the European Commission and the United States Department of State (e 10,000). Details here.
July 2015
Eurolab
Visiting Researcher — GESIS - Eurolab
Visiting researcher at the European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne (Germany). Details here.
Reference: Prof. Dr. Ingvill C. Mochmann · GESIS - Eurolab · [email protected]
Sep-Feb 2006
Erasmus
Fulbright-Schuman grant
Erasmus scholarship — Universidad Castilla-La Mancha
erasmus project scholarship, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.
publications
Sept. 2016
Garzia, D. and De Angelis, A. (2016). Partisanship, Leaders Evaluations and the Vote: Disentangling
the new Iron Triangle in Electoral Research. Comparative European Politics, Vol. 14 (5): 604-625.
Link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/cep.2014.36 [26 September 2016]
Jan. 2015
Garzia, D., Trechsel, A.H., De Sio, L., and De Angelis, A. (2015). euandi: Project Description and
Datasets Documentation. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) Research Paper
Series. Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/01
Link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2553919 [23 February 2016]
June 2014
Garzia, D., De Angelis, A., and Pianzola, J. (2014). The Impact of Voting Advice Applications on
Electoral Participation. In: Garzia, D. and Marschall, S. (Eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and
Candidates: Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester (UK): ECPR Press.
Link: http://press.ecpr.eu/book_details.asp?bookTitleID=104 [23 February 2016]
Dec 2013
De Angelis, A. and Garzia, D. (2013). Individual level dynamics of PTV change across the electoral
cycle. Electoral Studies, Vol. 32 (4): 900 - 904.
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379413000917 [23 February 2016]
Sept 2013
Bellucci, P., and De Angelis, A. (2013). Government Approval in Italy: Political Cycle, Economic
Expectations and TV Coverage. Electoral Studies, Vol. 32 (3): 452 - 459.
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379413000644 [23 February 2016]
current research
Taking cues from the government? The effect of heuristic cues versus policy arguments in the Italian
constitutional referendum. With Dr. Celine Colombo (University of Zurich) and Dr. Davide Morisi
(European University Institute). Working paper.
Bridging troubled water: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation of European voters and parties in the aftermath
of the Great Recession. PhD dissertation.
The effect of tailor-made information on electoral participation: the case of Voting Advice Applications.
With Dr. Diego Garzia (European University Institute) and Prof. Alexander H. Trechsel (European University Institute). Accepted with minor revisions at Political Communication.
Accountability or partisan rationalization in economic voting? An analysis of economic perceptions and
partisanship as determinants of vote choice during the Great Recession in Italy (2011-2013). With Prof.
Paolo Bellucci (University of Siena), paper under review at the Journal of Politics.
How parties strategically select issues according to issue yield: a case study linking survey and Twitter
data. With Prof. Lorenzo De Sio (LUISS University) and Dr. Vincenzo Emanuele (LUISS
University), paper presented at the MPSA Conference, Chicago 2016.
A Test of Media Capture by Using Machine-Learning Techniques, Evidence from Italian Television News
2010-2014. With Alessandro Vecchiato (New York University), paper presented at the 2016
Italian Society of Political Science, Milan, September 2016.
Geographical variations of issue attitudes? Evidence from a geo-localized Voting Advice Application.
With Prof. Lorenzo De Sio (LUISS University), Professor Alexander Trechsel (Lucerne University), Dr. Diego Garzia (Lucerne University). Paper presented at the 2016 ECPR Conference,
Prague 7-10 September 2016.
research and academic experience
Sept 2015 – Jul 2016
EUI
Stata tutor — EUI
stata research software tutor of the European University Institute. Details here.
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Jan-Mar 2016
Oxford Univ.
Junior Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, under the supervision of
Professor Raymond Duch. Details here.
Dec 2015 – Jan 2016
Societly
Assistant — LAPS, university of siena
Assistant for the Laboratory on Social and Political Analysis Analysis (LAPS). Collaboration
with various projects including data collection for the Italian Nation Election Survey (ITANES)
and deliberative events for the Tuscany Region.
Reference: Francesco Olmastroni University of Siena · [email protected]
Sep – Dec 2009
ANED
Research Assistant — university of siena
Dataset and codebook preparation for the Transatlantic Trends Survey (TTS).
Reference: Pierangelo Isernia · University of Siena · [email protected]
Nov 2010–Feb 2012
LAPS, Siena
Research Assistant — lisbon university
Research Assistant for the “Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology” (CIES), Lisbon
University Institute. Data collection on political pledges and legislative for the Italian second
republic.
Reference: Dr. Catherine Moury · University of Lisbon · [email protected]
Nov 2010–Jun 2012
Siena Univ.
Teaching Assistant — university of siena
Teaching the module in Political Methodology for the course in Political Science, BA program
in Political Science, University of Siena. Teaching activities included the preparation of teaching
material, class presentations, office hours, preparation and correction of the final exam.
Reference: Prof. Maurizio Cotta · University of Siena · [email protected]
Nov 2011–Feb 2012
Lisbon Univ.
Research Assistant — european university institute
Research assistantship and data collection on Italian technocratic governments.
Reference: Prof. Pepper Culpepper · EUI · [email protected]
Nov 2011–Feb 2012
Siena Univ.
Research Assistant — Vote Match 2013
Country expert for the 2013 Italian general elections Voting Advice Application Vote Match, in
collaboration with the Italian National Election Studies Association (ITANES).
Reference: Prof. Paolo Bellucci · ITANES · [email protected]
Nov 2012–Feb 2013
EUI
Italy Team Leader — euandi 2014
Italian team leader and media referent for euandi, the Voting Advice and community building
Application for the 2014 European Parliament elections. Project details here.
Reference: Prof. Alexander H. Trechsel · EUI · [email protected]
Jan - Feb 2013
ITANES
Fulbright-Schuman visiting Junior Scholar — NYU
Fulbright-Schuman visiting junior scholar at WILF Family Department of Politics - New York
University, under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Nagler. Participation to the activities of
the Social Media and Political Participation Laboratory (SMaPP Lab).
Nov 2013 – Jun 2014
EUI
Research Assistant — Societly
Research assistant for the 2016 American primaries Voting Advice Application Societly. VAA
development with Dr. Diego Garzia and Prof. Alexander Trechsel.
Sep-Dec 2015
NYU
Junior Visiting Scholar — nuffield college
Cooperant — aned (La Paz, Bolivia)
Cooperant in Research and Development Department. Main activities: market research and
strategic planning of microfinancial products in the diary sector.
Asociación Nacional Ecumenica de Desarrollo (ANED), La Paz (Bolivia)
professional service activities
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Section chair: 2016 Graduate Student Conference, University of Tartu, Section in Comparative
Politics titled “Stress testing Europe: challenges and outcomes of the economic, political, and
humanitarian crisis”. Expected output includes a special issue on the European crisis on
Interdisciplinary Political Studies.
Organizer EUI workshop on media effects. 6-7 June 2016, details here.
Convenor EUI Political Economy working group. Academic year 2013-2014.
Peer reviewer for academic journals: Journal of Politics, Policy and Internet, Contemporary Italian
Politics.
selection of training courses
2015-2016
New York University
Quantitative Methods III: Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Generalized Linear Model, Bayesian
inference, MCMC methods, Bayesian analysis of hierarchical/multilevel models, Bayesian latent
variable modelling, mixture models, generalized additive models. Textbooks: S. Jackman
“Bayesian Analysis for the Social Science”; A. Gelman and J. Hill “Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models”. Software: R, stan. Professor Arturas Rozenas.
The Spatial Model: Formal models of electoral competition and agenda control, empirical models
of spatial voting (NOMINATE, IDEAL, mixed data). Software for applications: R. Professor
Howard Rosenthal.
Text Analysis using R. Text data processing relying on the quanteda package, topic modelling,
latent semantic analysis. Professor Kenneth Benoit and Dr. Paul Nulty. An illustrative
application of Structural Topic Modelling to the entire blog of the Italian Five Stars’ Movement
can be found here.
2015 Fulbright Enrichment Seminar ”Democracy in Action” on U.S. Politics and Elections: U.S. presidential election process, implications of changing media landscape for U.S. 2016 elections, U.S.
election simulation. Professors Daron shaw, Sean Theriault, and Dr. James Henson (Seminar
sponsored by the United States Department of State).
2012-2014
European University Institute
Advanced research design: design-based inference topics, experiments and methods for causal
inference. Professors Fabrizio Bernardi and Diego Gambetta.
Causal inference workshop: potential outcome framework, applied estimation techniques (diffin-diff, instrumental variable regression, regression discontinuity). Software for applications:
stata. Professor Fabrizio bernardi and Dr. Elias dinas.
Research skills for the world of Big Data: Voting Advice Applications, social media and political
participation, web scraping (RSS and HTML), text processing, Twitter API. Software for applications: python. Professor Alexander Trechsel and Dr. Jonathan bright.
The political consequences of the Great Recession. Origins and consequences of the crisis, comparison
with the Great Depression of the 1930s, governments’ reactions to the Euro Crisis, electoral
consequences of the crisis, reactions in the protest arena, citizens preference structures and
party mobilization. Professor Hans-Peter kriesi.
The Welfare State and the Radical Right. Professor Hans-Peter kriesi.
Advanced Qualitative Methods. Professors Pepper Culpepper and Andrew O. Bennett.
2010-2011
University of Siena
Comparative Political Behaviour: civic culture, social capital, social-psychological and rational
theories of vote, forecasting elections. Software for applications: stata. Professor Paolo
Bellucci.
Comparative Political Institutions: political parties, party systems, parliaments and governments
in the EU. Professors Jean blondel and Luca Verzichelli.
Quantitative Methods for political Science: regression analysis, limited dependent variables models,
simultaneous equations models, panel data models. Software for applications: stata. Professor
Michael S. Lewis-Beck.
2007-2009
Bocconi University
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Political Economics: formal models of probabilistic voting, credibility, reputation, optimal taxation,
welfare state, labour market, public debt, redistribution. Main textbook: T. Persson and G.
Tabellini “Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy”. Professors Alberto alesina and
Guido tabellini.
Advanced Statistics for Economics and Social Sciences: data reduction, order statistics, delta method,
exponential family, Newton-Rapson algorithm, EM algorithm, Maximum likelihood estimation,
introduction to Bayesian inference. Software for applications: matlab. Textbook: G. Casella
and R. Berger “Statistical Inference”. Professor Piero Veronese.
Advanced Mathematics for Economics and Social Sciences: Differential calculus, discrete dynamical
systems, difference equations, linear difference systems, optimal control in continuous and
discrete time. Software for applications: matlab. Professor Annamaria Squellati.
conference papers
POPE 2017
Feb 2017
Taking cues from the government? The effect of heuristic cues versus policy arguments in the Italian
constitutional referendum. With Celine Colombo (University of Zurich) and Davide Morisi
(European University Institute), paper presented at the conference ”Referendum costituzionale
2016. Elettori, partiti e media nella ”Seconda Repubblica”, organized by the standing group on
Parties, Public Opinion and Elections (POPE) of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP)
and the Italian Society of Electoral Studies (SISE), Rome (La Sapienza University), 9-10 February
2017.
SISP 2016
Sept 2016
A Test of Media Capture by Using Machine-Learning Techniques, Evidence from Italian Television News
2010-2014. With Alessandro Vecchiato (New York University), paper presented at the 2016
Italian Society of Political Science, Milan, 15-16-17 September 2016.
ECPR 2016
Sept 2016
Geographical variations of issue attitudes? Evidence from a geo-localized Voting Advice Application. With
Prof. Lorenzo De Sio (LUISS University), Professor Alexander Trechsel (Lucerne University), Dr.
Diego Garzia (Lucerne University). Paper presented at the 2016 ECPR Conference, Prague 7-10
September 2016.
MPSA 2016
April 2016
How Parties Strategically Select Issues According to Issue Yield: A Case Study Linking Survey and
Twitter Data. With Professor Lorenzo De Sio and Dr. Vincenzo Emanuele. Paper presented at
the Midwest Political Science Association Conference (7-10 April 2016, Chicago).
ECPR 2014
Sept 2014
Changing Media, Changing Voters: Investigating the Relationship between Media Fragmentation and
Political Polarization in 26 European Elections (1989-2009). ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, 3 6 September 2014.
ISPP 2014
July 2014
Economic Voting: Investigating Accountability or Partisan Rationalization? Annual Meeting of the
International Society of Political Psychology, Rome (Italy), 4 - 7 July 2014.
EPSA 2013
July 2013
Media, Economics, and the Vote Function in Italy (2011-2013). Paper co-authored with Paolo
Bellucci, 3rd Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, 20-22
June 2013.
SIComPol 2012
Dec 2012
Government Approval in Italy: Political Cycle, Economic Expectations and TV Coverage. Paper co-
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authored with Paolo Bellucci. Annual Meeting of the Italian Political Communication Society,
Turin (Italy), 13 - 15 December 2012.
ELECDEM 2012
June 2012
Short-term political attitudes and PTVs Preliminary evidence from the Italian case. Paper co-authered
with Diego Garzia. ELECDEM Closing Conference, European University Institute, Fiesole
(Italy), 28 - 30 June, 2012.
ETMAAL 2012
Dec 2011
It’s the Partisan Economy, Stupid! Untangling the Relationships between Economic Voting and Partisan
Attitude. 11th Dutch-Flemish Politicologenetmaal, Amsterdam, 31 May - 1 June 2012.
TEV 2011
Dec 2011
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Dealing with the Economic Explanation of Voting Choice. 1th True
European Voter Conference on Comparative Electoral Research (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1-3 December
2011. COST Action IS0806 grant.
TEV 2011
Dec 2011
Partisanship, Leader Evaluatons, and the Vote: Breaking the new Iron Triangle in Electoral Research.
Paper co-authored with Diego Garzia. 1th True European Voter Conference on Comparative
Electoral Research (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1-3 December 2011. COST Action IS0806 grant.
SISP grad. 2011
June 2011
Constructing the European Political Identity: the Effect of Cultural Heterogeneities. SISP (Italian
Society of Political Science) Graduate Conference (Turin, Italy).
language skills
Italian
Native speaker
English
Proficient user: reading (C1), writing (C1), speaking (C1)
Spanish
Proficient user: reading (C1), writing (C1), speaking (C1)
French
Basic user:
reading ( B1), writing ( A2), speaking ( A2)
programming skills
Proficient
Used in the past
r, stata, LATEX, jags
pyton, stan, matlab
general interests
Scouting · guitar · vintage Vespas · bicycle travelling · surfing · skiing.
February 13, 2017
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